Weaknesses

Examples

• But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Sir John had his share--perhaps rather a large share--of the more harmless and amiable of the weaknesses incidental to humanity. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• One of her weaknesses was a desire to move in 'our best society', without being quite sure what the best really was. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It's the fashionable way; and fashion and whiskers have been my weaknesses, and I don't care who knows it, says Mr. Jobling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Her duty is at his side; and luckily she seems always to have been blind to his private weaknesses. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But my husband has his weaknesses, and he is so weak as to relent towards this Doctor. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• If I had not been too old for the amiable weaknesses of youth, I believe I should have blushed at the notion of facing him myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As a general rule, Edison does not get genuinely angry at mistakes and other human weaknesses of his subordinates; at best he merely simulates anger. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And priestly government had its own weaknesses as well as its peculiar deep-rooted strength. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You charm me, Mortimer, with your reading of my weaknesses. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I have many weaknesses, but none greater. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• They take advantage of popular weaknesses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They are great weaknesses--Damme, sir, they are great. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I have suppressed none of my many weaknesses on that subject, but have written them as faithfully as my memory has recalled them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In many cases they were no doubt swayed by very mixed motives, his majesty had weaknesses, his majesty almost always had a sensitive personal vanity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His weaknesses are several times alluded to by Socrates, who, however, will not allow him to be attacked by his brother Adeimantus. Plato. The Republic.
• All her past weaknesses were like so many eager accomplices drawing her toward the path their feet had already smoothed. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The Vincys had their weaknesses, but then they lay on the surface: there was never anything bad to be found out concerning them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Was it one of my weaknesses you wanted to humour, by appearing to guess me something out of the common way? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They objected not to the church's power, but to its weaknesses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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